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In reply to the discussion: Do y'all realize how much the Joe Biden "frontrunner" talk smacks of white male entitlement? [View all]NNadir
(33,464 posts)...not long ago, after he had reached his 90s.
His intellect in his 90s vastly outstripped that of any person I have ever personally met of any age, and trust me, I travel in highly intellectual circles.
We discussed some very obscure topics in physics, chemistry, and biology and even history. At no point did I feel that he was unable to discuss any topic I raised at less than an expert level.
I am personally an old fat bald guy, but I am acutely aware that, as Ingmar Bergmann put it, that growing old is like climbing a mountain, one's breath gets shorter but one's views grow more expansive.
Trump's puerile nature almost certainly reflects a lifelong intellectual and moral vapidity that probably is only mildly related to senility.
I am open to all candidates and have no formal bias against age. The choice of most Americans in the last election, negated by the slave era artifact of the Electoral College, was for a mature woman of a certain age with a high intellect. If allowed to serve, I believe her age and experience would have guided our country wisely.
Speaking only for myself, I am wiser, smarter and better able to address difficulties than I have ever been at any other point in my life.